{"id":108087,"date":"2015-12-11T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108087\/police-seize-illegal-firearm\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:10:27","slug":"police-seize-illegal-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/11\/police-seize-illegal-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize illegal firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police recently recovered an illegal firearm in Barbara Road, in Primrose, after officers received a complaint about a 52-year-old man threatening people at the Marlands mini-dump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen officers arrived on the scene the accused had already left, but one of the community members at the mini-dump had managed to get his vehicle\u2019s registration,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The vehicle was traced to Barbara Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched it and found a 7.65 Astra mode with nine live rounds of ammunition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe man was unable to produce a licence for the firearm and was arrested,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56408\/man-nabbed-possession-unlicensed-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man nabbed for possession of unlicensed firearm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88239\/four-men-found-with-unlicensed-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four men found with unlicensed firearms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103836\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearm-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man found with unlicensed firearm<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2baed7f2a5f7dff7807a7d0fd8dc6878'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police discover unlicensed firearm in a 52-year-old man\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-108087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}